Glas New Russian Writing Equation with Two Knowns, My Teachers, The Lilac Dressing Gown, On Upper Maslovka, In Kropotkinskaya Street, The Forgotten Woman, The Pure Zone, Fairy Tales for Grownup Children, Springtime in Broad Daylight, Poems In Glas"s latest collection of Russian women"s writing a new note of resolution and humour is heard. The heroines range from a wide-eyed child to a 95-year -old sculptress in love with a man 60 years her junior, a noble woman adrift in today"s Moscow to an old lady forgotten in an abandoned village, from a gynaecologist to a fairy tale princess. Meet the women writers of Russia in the 1990s, Maria Arbatova, Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Dina Rubina, Larissa Miller, Irina Muravyova, Nina Gabrielyan, and Irina Polianskaya as they write about women unflinchingly facing up to a world of illness, old age, death, madness, and men.